flame
n. countablen. the hot, bright part of a fire that you can see. It is the glowing gas that comes off something when it burns.
n. the visible, gaseous part of a fire, produced by the combustion of a fuel source. Often used metaphorically to describe intense passion or an angry online message.
The candle flame flickers in the breeze.
The campers sat around the fire, watching the orange flames dance as the wood crackled.
While the blue core of the flame indicates the highest temperature, the outer yellow layers are often more visible due to the presence of glowing soot particles.
From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin fladma; Proto-Italic flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native Old English līeġ.
From Middle English flawmen, from Old French flamber, flammer.
Commonly used in the plural when describing a large fire; often takes the preposition 'in' ('in flames').